Conformational Behavior and Flexibility of Terminally Blocked Cysteine and Cystine |
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Authors: | Zdenek Kríz Jaroslav Koca Per H J Carlsen |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic 2. Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Trondheim, Norwegian Institute of Technology, 7034, Trondheim - NTH, Norway
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Abstract: | Conformational potential energy hypersurfaces, PES, for the terminally blocked L-Cysteine, L,L-Cystine and D,L-Cystine have been analyzed by means of molecular mechanics in combination with the programs ROSE, CICADA, PANIC and COMBINE. Low energy conformations and conformational transitions, conformational channels, have been located. Global and fragmental flexibility and conformational softness have been calculated for each conformer as well as for the entire molecule. The PES analyses were used for simulation of conformational movement based on Boltzmann probability of the points obtained on the PES. Boltzmann travelling revealed interesting correlated conformational movement where three or even more dihedral angles changed simultaneously. It could be shown that conformational behavior and flexibility were strongly influenced by the absolute configurations of the amino acids in the peptides. |
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